Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
Showing 9 essays tagged opening the heart
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58. How Do We Know What Is True?
Yes, everyone has a built-in place where they can see clearly. And getting there takes some practice.
Sep 22, 2025
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47. Trusting the Waters of Life
On rivers, the secret river, and what one very early project to drain a lake can tell us about both
Feb 4, 2024
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46. Star Light, Star Bright
Looking up and opening the heart at the Solstice
Dec 21, 2023
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30. Cultivating Nature Spirituality
Two simple—but not easy!—practices for beginning a spirituality of nature: opening the heart and widening the perception
Jan 28, 2022
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7. The Freedom of the Wind
In a world that is always becoming, always unpredictable, aligning with spirit means aligning with freedom
Jul 17, 2020
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6. Finding the Way of the Heart
In a society that follows the mind—thinking and planning and goal setting—what does it look like to follow the heart?
Jul 10, 2020
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5. On Masks and Fear and a Truer Story of Nature
What denial of a virus has to do with whiteness
Jul 3, 2020
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.